A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29.

A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our solar system could soon become visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1946 — and you can easily find it in the night sky.

Incidentally, one way that you can tell the difference between a star and a planet in the night sky is that planets do not appear to twinkle, or at least not very much. Unlike a star whose narrow ...

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Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to follow a mathematical theory describing fluids in nature. He couldn't have understood the equations, which came about decades after his death. Researchers ...